Ohio prison suicide rate below nation

Report shows hanging as most prevalent method

6:23 AM,
Sep. 24, 2013

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The Ohio prison system's most recent high-profile suicides - Cleveland kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro and death row inmate Billy Slagle - have a few things in common with the other 86 individuals who've killed themselves while incarcerated since 2000.

They were white, male and hanged themselves rather than face stiff sentences.

A report released Monday by the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee detailed demographics of 88 people who have committed suicide inside Ohio's prisons since 2000. The report revealed 81 of 88 deaths were hangings, and 76.1 percent deaths were ...